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..Dysphoria provided approximately 10% predictive increment for mothers' ratings of their own children after partialing out independent judges' ratings. Results support an emotion-appraisal model predicting dysphoric bias...

Toward an integration of parent and clinician report on the Young Mania Rating Scale

Eric A YoungstromDepartment of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USAJ Affect Disord 77:179-90. 2003

..The Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) has validity in the assessment of mania in adults. The purpose of this study was to examine how the YMRS might optimally be used in the assessment of youths...

Who are the comorbid adolescents? Agreement between psychiatric diagnosis, youth, parent, and teacher report

..However, the young male group showed higher scores on several items as well as the total YMRS score. Results suggest that the YMRS total score can be meaningfully interpreted in child and adolescent samples...

..Family support and self-concept moderated the influence of life stress and cumulative risk on problem behavior outcomes, but these protective variables did not significantly moderate violence exposure...

Interpersonal problem solving in preschool and first grade: developmental change and ecological validity

..Quality of response appeared more important than solution quantity in predicting ecologically valid behaviors, implying that interventions should concentrate on response content more than quantity...

Discriminative validity of parent report of hypomanic and depressive symptoms on the General Behavior Inventory

..The primary purpose of this study was to describe the clinical presentation of bipolar I disorder (BP-I) as it occurs in children and adolescents and to assess whether the manifestations of BP-I were similar in both age groups...

Contextual risk, caregiver emotionality, and the problem behaviors of six- and seven-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families

..Future studies should prospectively examine social and environmental factors associated with the neonatal intensive care experience that might explain the effect of very low birth weight on later psychopathology...

..13-.14 in the present sample. Likelihood ratios are presented to assist clinical detection of individuals exhibiting the category of cognitive symptom exaggeration...

Developing a 10-item mania scale from the Parent General Behavior Inventory for children and adolescents

Eric A YoungstromDepartment of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USAJ Clin Psychiatry 69:831-9. 2008

..The goal of the present study was to develop and validate a brief (10 item) instrument to assess mania in a large sample of outpatients presenting with a variety of different DSM-IV diagnoses, including frequent comorbid conditions...

Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of six potential screening instruments for bipolar disorder in youths aged 5 to 17 years

..To achieve consensus among researchers, pharmaceutical industry representatives, federal regulatory agency staff, and family advocates on a template for clinical trials of acute mania/bipolar disorder in children and adolescents...

..These findings indicate that overall cognitive ability is significantly lower among persons with ADHD and that FSIQ may show as large a difference between ADHD and control participants as most other measures...

Behavioral outcomes and evidence of psychopathology among very low birth weight infants at age 20 years

..To determine if divalproex sodium was superior to placebo in the treatment of symptomatic youths who suffer from a bipolar spectrum disorder and who also have a parent with a diagnosis of a bipolar illness...

Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the autism diagnostic interview-revised

..The purpose of this study was to explore whether amantadine would slow or reverse significant weight gain in children and adolescents treated with antipsychotics and/or mood stabilizers that may promote increases in weight...

Clinical decision-making using the General Behavior Inventory in juvenile bipolarity

Robert L FindlingDepartment of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106 5080, USABipolar Disord 4:34-42. 2002

..The General Behavior Inventory (GBI) is a questionnaire that has utility in the assessment of mood disorders in adults. The purpose of this study was to examine how the GBI might optimally be used in the assessment of youths...

..Factor structures replicated across genders (3 factors for the SRI, and 2 factors for the PRI). Results are discussed in terms of the divergence of structures...

A prospective, open-label trial of olanzapine in adolescents with schizophrenia

Robert L FindlingDepartment of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH 44106, USAJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:170-5. 2003

..Olanzapine is an atypical antipsychotic that has efficacy in adults with psychotic disorders. This preliminary study examined the effectiveness of olanzapine in adolescents with schizophrenia or its related conditions...

The latent structure of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a clinic-referred sample

..Alternatively, the null findings may have resulted from inadequate indicator selection. A dimensional model may better facilitate accurate identification of individuals at risk for functional impairment...

Mood state at study entry as predictor of the polarity of relapse in bipolar disorder

..Interestingly, although not hypothesized, trait dominance was also associated with character identification by virtue of being positively associated with BAS and PA and negatively associated with BIS and NA...

..To examine the effect of combined lithium and divalproex sodium on thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels in children and adolescents with bipolar disorders and to identify risk factors for lithium-induced hypothyroidism...

..The primary goal of this study was to assess the rate of re-stabilization after the resumption of lithium (Li) plus divalproex (DVPX) following relapse on either agent as monotherapy...

Combination lithium and divalproex sodium in pediatric bipolarity

Robert L FindlingDepartment of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USAJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:895-901. 2003

..Many youths with bipolar disorder do not respond to DVPX or Li monotherapy. An open-label study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of combination DVPX and Li therapy with youths diagnosed with bipolar disorder...

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for bipolar disorders in adolescents: a pilot study

Norah C FeenyDepartment of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44106, USABipolar Disord 8:508-15. 2006

..Child psychosocial issues and maternal depression are underidentified and undertreated, but we know surprisingly little about the barriers to identification and treatment of these problems by primary care pediatricians...

ADHD and achievement: meta-analysis of the child, adolescent, and adult literatures and a concomitant study with college students

..However, unlike earlier studies with children and adolescents, student ratings were as predictive as parent ratings. Findings are discussed in terms of the impact of moderator variables on ADHD and achievement...